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Louisiana Flood Stories

2,076 first-hand accounts of flood events in Louisiana, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood

Grant, LA · Nov 9, 2024

An upper trough slowly shifted east across the Central and Southern Plains on November 9th, behind a nearly stationary frontal boundary that extended from portions of Southeast Texas into Central and Northeast Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Grant, LA · Nov 9, 2024

An upper trough slowly shifted east across the Central and Southern Plains on November 9th, behind a nearly stationary frontal boundary that extended from portions of Southeast Texas into Central and Northeast Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Grant, LA · Nov 9, 2024

An upper trough slowly shifted east across the Central and Southern Plains on November 9th, behind a nearly stationary frontal boundary that extended from portions of Southeast Texas into Central and Northeast Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Grant, LA · Nov 9, 2024

An upper trough slowly shifted east across the Central and Southern Plains on November 9th, behind a nearly stationary frontal boundary that extended from portions of Southeast Texas into Central and Northeast Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Grant, LA · Nov 9, 2024

An upper trough slowly shifted east across the Central and Southern Plains on November 9th, behind a nearly stationary frontal boundary that extended from portions of Southeast Texas into Central and Northeast Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Grant, LA · Nov 9, 2024

An upper trough slowly shifted east across the Central and Southern Plains on November 9th, behind a nearly stationary frontal boundary that extended from portions of Southeast Texas into Central and Northeast Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

La Salle, LA · Nov 9, 2024

An upper trough slowly shifted east across the Central and Southern Plains on November 9th, behind a nearly stationary frontal boundary that extended from portions of Southeast Texas into Central and Northeast Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Ascension, LA · Sep 11, 2024

Hurricane Francine formed as a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico on September 9, 2024, and intensified into a Category 2 hurricane before making landfall near Houma, Louisiana, on the morning of September 11.

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Flash Flood

Lincoln, LA · May 30, 2024

Remnants of a pre-dawn mesoscale convective system (MCS) that developed over the southern High Plains propagated downstream into the Ark-La-Tex region during the evening hours on May 30th.

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Flash Flood

Bossier, LA · May 22, 2024

Surface analysis identified a cold front advancing into the Ark-La-Tex region early in the afternoon on May 22nd. Weak surface troughing preceded the cold front, noted by a wind shift from southerly to the south of the boundary to northerly to the north of it.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · May 22, 2024

Surface analysis identified a cold front advancing into the Ark-La-Tex region early in the afternoon on May 22nd. Weak surface troughing preceded the cold front, noted by a wind shift from southerly to the south of the boundary to northerly to the north of it.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · May 22, 2024

Surface analysis identified a cold front advancing into the Ark-La-Tex region early in the afternoon on May 22nd. Weak surface troughing preceded the cold front, noted by a wind shift from southerly to the south of the boundary to northerly to the north of it.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · May 22, 2024

Surface analysis identified a cold front advancing into the Ark-La-Tex region early in the afternoon on May 22nd. Weak surface troughing preceded the cold front, noted by a wind shift from southerly to the south of the boundary to northerly to the north of it.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · May 22, 2024

Surface analysis identified a cold front advancing into the Ark-La-Tex region early in the afternoon on May 22nd. Weak surface troughing preceded the cold front, noted by a wind shift from southerly to the south of the boundary to northerly to the north of it.

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Flash Flood

Bossier, LA · May 22, 2024

Surface analysis identified a cold front advancing into the Ark-La-Tex region early in the afternoon on May 22nd. Weak surface troughing preceded the cold front, noted by a wind shift from southerly to the south of the boundary to northerly to the north of it.

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Flash Flood

Bossier, LA · May 30, 2024

Remnants of a pre-dawn mesoscale convective system (MCS) that developed over the southern High Plains propagated downstream into the Ark-La-Tex region during the evening hours on May 30th.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · May 9, 2024

Surface analysis indicated a stationary front extending across North Texas eastward to near the Arkansas and Louisiana border during the afternoon and evening on May 9th.

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Flash Flood

De Soto, LA · Jul 26, 2024

A broad complex of showers and thunderstorms with associated heavy rainfall developed across areas of Deep East Texas and West Central Louisiana by mid to late morning on July 26th.

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Flash Flood

Natchitoches, LA · Jul 24, 2024

Slow-moving bands of locally training showers and thunderstorms produced extremely heavy rainfall rates and excessive totals across southern Natchitoches Parish on the morning of July 24th.

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Flash Flood

Natchitoches, LA · Jul 26, 2024

A broad complex of showers and thunderstorms with associated heavy rainfall developed across areas of Deep East Texas and West Central Louisiana by mid to late morning on July 26th.

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Flash Flood

Natchitoches, LA · Jul 26, 2024

A broad complex of showers and thunderstorms with associated heavy rainfall developed across areas of Deep East Texas and West Central Louisiana by mid to late morning on July 26th.

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Flash Flood

Sabine, LA · Jul 25, 2024

Intense showers and thunderstorms increased in coverage across parts of the Toledo Bend Country in West Central Louisiana by mid to late morning on July 25th. Rather slow cell motions and intense rainfall rates promoted areas of heavy rainfall across these areas.

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Flash Flood

St. Tammany, LA · Apr 10, 2024

A strong upper level disturbance, surface low, and cold front produced a line of severe thunderstorms that pushed across Southeast Louisiana and Southern Mississippi in the morning and early afternoon hours of Wednesday, April 10, 2024.

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Flash Flood

Orleans, LA · Apr 10, 2024

A strong upper level disturbance, surface low, and cold front produced a line of severe thunderstorms that pushed across Southeast Louisiana and Southern Mississippi in the morning and early afternoon hours of Wednesday, April 10, 2024.

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